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End Student Boredom K12 Publisher’s Guide to 70% Engagement Boost
Making content shorter isn’t the answer to student boredom, says KITABOO’s Leslie Chamberlain. In this Education Week webinar she explains what makes learning stick and shares practical strategies, including a US math publisher whose interactive workbooks lifted student engagement 70%. Jagadish Chowdibegur (JC) then shows how publishers build that kind of content in KITABOO.
- Recorded
- 29 May 2025
- Length
- 59 minutes
- Speakers
- Leslie Chamberlain, Jagadish Chowdibegur
- Access
- Free to watch
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The conversation
Meaningful is more important than brief.
Leslie starts by asking attendees how far away their phones are. Devices are designed to distract, she says, so expecting students to ignore them is unreasonable. Cutting content shorter doesn’t fix that: engagement is stronger with longer pieces that matter to the reader. What sticks is emotion, storytelling and visuals. She illustrates dual coding with her first day of Mongolian lessons as a Peace Corps volunteer.
From there she turns to practical strategies, chunking, choice-based pathways and jigsaw techniques, and to two KITABOO case studies. JC then demonstrates how a publisher converts a PDF into an interactive EPUB in KITABOO Studio without coding, and the hour ends with attendees’ questions on DRM, accessibility, data ownership and onboarding.
In the conversation
Learning science first, then the platform.
Speaker
Leslie Chamberlain
Customer Success, KITABOO
An educator by training with a doctorate in higher education, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer who once taught business communication at DePaul. At KITABOO she leads the team that onboards publishers and schools.
Speaker
Jagadish Chowdibegur (JC)
VP of Sales, KITABOO
Gave the live demonstration of KITABOO Studio, the reader and K.AI, and answered most of the technical questions.
Host
Darshit Shah
Segment Lead – Marketing, KITABOO
Opened the webinar, introduced Leslie and ran the closing Q&A.
Inside the session
Go straight to what you need.
Pick a chapter and the recording starts at that moment.
From the audience
What publishers asked.
What to take away
Start with one simple step.
Leslie’s ask at the end of her part: pick the one idea that excited you and make a change based on it.
After the session
Ready to try one strategy on your own content?
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